Patch "net: vrf: Add support for sends to local broadcast address" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

net: vrf: Add support for sends to local broadcast address

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
net-vrf-add-support-for-sends-to-local-broadcast-address.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 19:37:37 -0800
Subject: net: vrf: Add support for sends to local broadcast address

From: David Ahern <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 1e19c4d689dc1e95bafd23ef68fbc0c6b9e05180 ]

Sukumar reported that sends to the local broadcast address (255.255.255.255) are broken. Check for the address in vrf driver and do not redirect to the VRF device - similar to multicast packets.

With this change sockets can use SO_BINDTODEVICE to specify an egress interface and receive responses. Note: the egress interface can not be a VRF device but needs to be the enslaved device.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198521

---
 drivers/net/vrf.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -674,8 +674,9 @@ static struct sk_buff *vrf_ip_out(struct
 				  struct sock *sk,
 				  struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	/* don't divert multicast */
-	if (ipv4_is_multicast(ip_hdr(skb)->daddr))
+	/* don't divert multicast or local broadcast */
+	if (ipv4_is_multicast(ip_hdr(skb)->daddr) ||
+	    ipv4_is_lbcast(ip_hdr(skb)->daddr))
 		return skb;
 
 	if (qdisc_tx_is_default(vrf_dev))

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/net-ipv4-make-ip-route-get-match-iif-lo-rules-again.patch queue-4.14/net-vrf-add-support-for-sends-to-local-broadcast-address.patch queue-4.14/netlink-extack-needs-to-be-reset-each-time-through-loop.patch queue-4.14/netlink-reset-extack-earlier-in-netlink_rcv_skb.patch